Before their respective careers took off in ingenious mainstream directions, New York auteurs Lena Dunham, Josh Safdie, and Benny Safdie all started humbly with these two independents features. Both sharing a similar sense of Intimacy, charm, and clear understanding of alienation as experienced by twenty-somethings—these films distinctly stand out amongst the crowd of similarly themed films reckoning with surviving youth in the city that never sleeps.